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Ministry of Women and Child Development
WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT MINISTRY INVITES NOMINATIONS FOR NARI SHAKTI PURASKAR-2021
AWARDS RECOGNISE OUTSTANDING WORK IN THE FIELDS OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN
ONLINE APPLICATIONS/NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN TILL 31st JANUARY, 2022
The Ministry of Women and Child Development has invited Nominations for the Nari Shakti Puraskar-2021. Applications/ Nominations will be accepted only through online mode and may be filed at the portal www.awards.gov.in. All Applications/ Nominations received upto 31st January, 2022 will be considered for Nari Shakti Puruskar for the year 2021.
The Awards recognise outstanding work in the fields of economic and social empowerment of women. Nari Shakti Puraskar-2021 will be conferred by the Ministry of Women and Child Development on the occasion of International Women’s Day i.e., 8th March, 2022.
Guidelines regarding eligibility criteria and other details for Nari Shakti Puraskar are available at https://wcd.nic.in/acts/guidelines-nari-shakti-puraskar-2021-onwards
The Ministry of Women and Child Development confers Nari Shakti Puraskar every year to individuals and institutions in recognition of their service towards the cause of women empowerment, especially vulnerable and marginalized women. The award carries a certificate and a cash amount of rupees Two Lakh per awardee.
The awards are open to all individuals and institutions. The maximum number of awards  could be 15. However, any relaxation to this maximum number may be permitted at the discretion of the selection committee, Chaired by the Minister of Women and Child Development.
Self-nominations & recommendations for the Awards are also considered. The Selection Committee may also, suo-moto, recommend an individual/institution for the award with sufficient justification.
A Screening Committee, headed by a Joint Secretary level Officer of the Ministry of Women and Child Development, will scrutinize and shortlist the nominations received for the Awards considering the achievements of institutions and individuals, applied/recommended for the Awards. The final selection of the Awardees is made by a Selection Committee, chaired by the Union Minister of Women and Child Development, on the basis of recommendations of the Screening Committee.
Ministry of Finance
Special drive for expeditious clearance of pending appeal effect and rectification matters and issue of refunds
The Income Tax Department observed a dedicated fortnight from 1st to 15th June, 2018 to expeditiously clear pending matters of appeal effect and rectification. More than 20,000 such matters were disposed of and refunds were issued to the taxpayers, wherever due. Seeing the success of this initiative, the special drive was extended in certain regions up to 30th June, 2018.
Further, large amounts of refunds have also been issued consequent to processing of income-tax returns. More than 99% of all refund claims pending for processing as on 30.06.2018 have already been processed and the refunds due have been issued to the taxpayers. In all, refunds in 45.07 lakh cases have been issued during April-June, 2018, which is 9.0 lakh more than the refunds issued during the same period last year. More than 3 lakh refunds of Assessment Year 2018-19, for which returns have been filed only in last few weeks, have also been issued.
More than Rs.70,000 crore of refunds have been issued to the taxpayers as a result of the special drive and expeditious processing of returns involving claim of refunds. Central Board of Direct Taxes is committed to constantly reducing the service delivery timelines, expeditiously resolving the grievances of the taxpayers and improving the overall level of taxpayer service.
Ministry of Road Transport & Highways
Sale of BS-VI Norm Vehicles
The Government, vide G.S.R. 889, dated 16.09.2016 has mandated BS-VI mass emission standard for vehicles throughout the country from April 1, 2020 to curb pollution across the country.
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, vide GSR 178  dated 20th February, 2018 had notified that new motor vehicles conforming to Emission Standard Bharat Stage-IV manufactured before the 1st April, 2020 shall not be registered after the 30th June, 2020 and the new motor vehicles of categories M and N conforming to Emission Standard Bharat Stage-IV manufactured before the 1st April, 2020 and sold in the form of drive away chassis shall not be registered after the 30th September, 2020. However, the Hon’ble Supreme Court vide its order dated 24th October, 2018 has directed that no new motor vehicle conforming to the emission standard Bharat Stage-IV shall be sold or registered in the entire country with effect from 01.04.2020.
This information was given by the Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Shri Nitin Gadkari in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.
Cabinet
Cabinet approves construction of 10 units of India’s indigenous Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors 
n a significant decision to fast-track India’s domestic nuclear power programme, and give a push to country’s nuclear industry, the Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has given its approval for construction of 10 units of India’s indigenous Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors . The total installed capacity of the Plants will be 7000 MW. The 10 PHWR project will result in a significant augmentation of nuclear power generation capacity.
India has current installed nuclear power capacity of 6780 MW from 22 operational plants. Another 6700 MWs of nuclear power is expected to come onstream by 2021-22 through projects presently under construction.
As the government marks three years of its nation and people centric governnace, in a first of its kind project for India’s nuclear power sector, the ten new units will come up in fleet mode as a fully homegrown initiative. It would be one of the flagship “Make in India” projects in this sector.
With likely manufacturing orders of close to 70,000 crores to the domestic industry, the project will help transform Indian nuclear industry by linking our goal of a strong nuclear power sector with our indigenous industrial capacities in high-end technologies.
This Project will bring about substantial economies of scale and maximise cost and time efficiencies by adopting fleet mode for execution. It is expected to generate more than 33,400 jobs in direct and indirect employment. With manufacturing orders to domestic industry, it will be a major step towards strengthening India’s credentials as a major nuclear manufacturing powerhouse.
The ten reactors will be part of India’s latest design of 700 MW PHWR fleet with state-of-art technology meeting the highest standards of safety.
The approval also marks a statement of strong belief in the capability of India’s scientific community to build our technological capacities. The design and development of this project is a testament to the rapid advances achieved by India’s nuclear scientific community and industry. It underscores the mastery our nuclear scientists have attained over all aspects of indigenous PHWR technology. India’s record of building and operating PHWR reactors over the last nearly forty years is globally acclaimed.
The Cabinet’s decision reflects the Government’s commitment to prioritise the use of clean power in India’s energy mix, as part of low-carbon growth strategy and to ensure long-term base load requirement for the nation’s industrialization.
It also supports India’s commitment to sustainable development, energy self-sufficiency and bolsters global efforts to combat climate change.
PIB Headquarters
PIB’S BULLETIN ON COVID-19
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- 219.09 cr Total Vaccine doses  have been administered so far under Nationwide Vaccination Drive
- 4,93,352 doses administered in last 24 hours
- India's Active caseload currently stands at 26,292
- Active cases stand at 0.06%
- Recovery Rate currently at 98.76%
- 3,208 recoveries in the last 24 hours increases Total Recoveries to 4,40,63,406
- 2,139 new cases recorded in the last 24 hours
- Daily positivity rate 
- Weekly Positivity Rate 
- 89.76 cr Total Tests conducted so far; 2,64,216 tests conducted in the last 24 hours
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Press Information Bureau
Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Government of India
Ministry of Education
DIKSHA Platform
DIKSHA  an initiative of the Ministry of Education for digital online education, has QR coded textbooks and various specialized e-Contents for classes 1-12 and teachers in 33 Indian languages. On DIKSHA, 35 states and UTs have their own vertical along with those of NCERT, CBSE and NIOS. DIKSHA usage statistics as on date 14.07.2022 are as under:
· Total Learning sessions on DIKSHA – 495+ crores.
- Total Learning in minutes on DIKSHA – 5,749+ crore minutes.
- Page hits on DIKSHA from 01.04.2020 – 3,813+ crores.
- 6,477 Energized Textbooks developed by states/UTs and NCERT
- 2,91,168 pieces of e-content are live on DIKSHA as on date.
Several online courses are offered through DIKSHA to develop the skills of the teachers and school heads. NCERT has been offering NISHTHA  courses.
Till date there are 15 Crore enrolments in various courses on DIKSHA for the courses offered by various states and UTs, including various centers. This includes teachers, students, parents, and other stakeholders As per the courses launched as mentioned in , out of these 15 crores, there are more than 47 lakh teachers who have directly benefitted from NISHTHA and Continuous Professional Development  courses through DIKSHA Platform.
As of 14th July, 2022 there are 2,91,168 e-contents on DIKSHA. Currently, the total number of QR coded textbooks available is 6477 textbooks.
NCERT has taken several other efforts in building the competencies of teachers and enabling them to be a digital teacher. NCERT initiated a webinar series focusing to orient teachers, students and other stakeholders on various ICT tools, digital initiatives at national level, emerging trends in educational technology, cyber safety and security. Till date, nearly 625 live sessions of one hour each have been organised on ICT tools for teaching learning and assessment. A repository is also created for easy reference and can be accessed at https://ciet.nic.in/pages.php?id=webinar&ln=en
Online classes are being conducted in areas related to Education Technology  and Information and Communications Technology . Around 11 such trainings have been organized. More than 3 Lakh teachers have benefitted from these training sessions. A repository is also created for easy reference and can be accessed at https://ciet.nic.in/workshop-training.php?&ln=en
State Resource Groups  trainings have been conducted in all 36 States/ UTs in a phased manner regularly to develop the skills of using resources in DIKSHA as well as to develop quality digital content and distribute on DIKSHA. Around 720 State Resource Persons  across 36 States/ UTs were trained. During the year 2020-21, around 770 SRPs were trained through online training in two phases and during 2021-22 around 643 SRPs were trained online training in four phases.
The information was given by the Minister of State for Education, Smt. Annpurna Devi in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.
UPSC
Recruitment Results finalized by UPSC in December, 2019
The following Recruitment Results have been finalized by the Union Public Service Commission during the month of December, 2019. The recommended candidates have been informed individually by post.
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Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
IMPROVEMENT OF MARITIME INFRASTRUCTURE
The objective of ‘Act East Policy’ is to promote economic cooperation, cultural ties and develop strategic relationship with countries in the Asia-Pacific region by providing enhanced connectivity to the State of North Eastern Region with other countries in India’s neighborhood. Recognizing the significance of rivers for connectivity and prosperity, 20 rivers in the North East were declared as National Waterways under the National Waterways Act, 2016. To improve the waterway connectivity within the North East Area to facilitate enhancing trade expansion strategies, Government approved 05 projects at a total cost of INR 1126 cr. for development of the Inland Water Transport  infrastructure on National Waterways in the North-Eastern Region . The details of IWT projects is annexed [Annexure-I]
Further, Sagarmala programme is the flagship programme of the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways to promote port-led development in the country through harnessing India’s 7,500 km long coastline, 14,500 km of potentially navigable waterways and strategic location on key international maritime trade routes. As a part of Sagarmala Programme more than 400 projects at an estimated cost of around Rs. 2.55 Lakh Crore have been identified for implementation in the eastern coast of India. Sagarmala projects includes projects from various categories such as modernisation of existing ports and terminals, new ports, terminals, RoRo& tourism jetties, enhancement of port connectivity, inland waterways, lighthouse tourism, industrialization around port, skill development, technology centres, etc.
There is a specific focus on regional connectivity initiatives which act as force multipliers for regional growth and development while enhancing people to people contact and enhancing economic cooperation. Port of Vishakhapatnam and SPMK Port at Kolkata have been notified Gateway Port to meet the transit requirement of EXIM cargo of Nepal. On the eastern coast, Bangladesh has notified the Vishakhapatnam Port as ‘transhipment port of call’ for its container cargo in view of the location and connectivity advantages. Inland Waterways Authority of India  has undertaken projects for connectivity of NE States with neighboring countries like Myanmar & Bangladesh.
Annexure-I
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Project
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Cost

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Comprehensive Development of NW-2  in Assam
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474
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Construction of Alternative road to Pandu Port on NW-2 to NH-27 in Assam sanctioned in January 2023
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180
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DIB appraised project for construction Ship repair facility at Pandu on NW-2 to NH-27 in Assam
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208
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Comprehensive Development of NW-16  and Indian Portion of Indo-Bangladesh Route
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148
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Development of NW-31  & NW-57  in Assam
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116
This information was given by the Union Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Shri Sarbananda Sonowal in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha.
Ministry of Finance
Auction for Sale  of Government Stocks
The Government of India has announced the Sale  of  ‘7.32 per cent Government Stock, 2024’ for a notified amount of Rs. 5,000 crore  through price based auction,  ‘7.26 per cent Government Stock, 2029’ for a notified amount of Rs. 6,000 crore  through price based auction,  ‘7.69 per cent Government Stock, 2043’ for a notified amount of Rs. 2,000 crore  through price based auction, and  ‘7.72 per cent Government Stock, 2049’ for a notified amount of Rs. 4,000 crore  through price based auction. Subject to the limit of Rs. 17,000 crore, being total notified amount, GoI will have the option to retain additional subscription up to Rs. 1,000 crore each against any one or more of the above securities. The auctions will be conducted using multiple price method. The auctions will be conducted by the Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai Office, Fort, Mumbai on June 7, 2019 .
Up to 5% of the notified amount of the sale of the stocks will be allotted to eligible individuals and Institutions as per the Scheme for Non-Competitive Bidding Facility in the Auction of Government Securities.
Both competitive and non-competitive bids for the auction should be submitted in electronic format on the Reserve Bank of India Core Banking Solution  system on June 7, 2019. The non-competitive bids should be submitted between 11.30 a.m. and 12.00 noon and the competitive bids should be submitted between 11.30 a.m. and 12.30 p.m. The result of the auctions will be announced on June 7, 2019  and payment by successful bidders will be on June 10, 2019 .
The Stocks will be eligible for “When Issued” trading in accordance with the guidelines on ‘When Issued transactions in Central Government Securities’ issued by the Reserve Bank of India vide Circular No. RBI/2018-19/25 dated July 24, 2018 as amended from time to time.
Ministry of Culture
All-India Vande Bharatam, Nritya Utsav reaches Zonal level after several rounds of competitions
First zonal level event to be held by East Zone at Kolkata tomorrow
Winners of National Level Competition will perform at Republic Day 2022 programme in New Delhi
Vande Bharatam, Nritya Utsav  being held to select the best talent to perform at the Republic Day Parade on 26thJanuary, 2022 in New Delhi, has reached an exciting stage. The first zonal level event of this competition will be held tomorrow  at Kolkata. More than 20 winners of the State level Competitions held in various states of the Eastern Zone will take part in this event. Groups from Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Meghalaya, Assam, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland were eligible.
This is for the first time that dance groups to perform in a Republic Day Parade are being chosen based on an all India level competition. Vande Bharatam Dance Competition has been organised as part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav to celebrate 75 years of Independence.
This is a unique initiative of Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Culture to commemorate the 75th year of India’s Independence being celebrated as Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav. TheVande Bharatam ompetition which began at District level on 17th Nov saw participation of more than 3,870 contestants in 323 groups. Those who cleared the screening at the district level took part in State level competition from 30th November, 2021. More than 20 virtual events were conducted for the State-level competition over a span of 5 days till 4th December 2021. More than 300 groups were selected for the state-level comprising of 3,000 dancers/participants.Thus, over a period of one month the event gave an opportunity to all aspirants to showcase their talent to win a slot at National level.
During the first Zonal level event in Kolkata, the rich dance forms, music, songs of India in classical, folk, tribal and contemporary forms will be performed. The event will be held at Science City Auditorium at Kolkata from 10.00am onwards.
Similarly Zonal level events will be held in Mumbai on 10th December 2021, Bengaluru on 11thDecember, 2021 and New Delhi on 12th December, 2021. The Zonal Level competitions will be broadcast LIVE on the official Facebook page & YouTube channel of Vande Bharatam along with the website vandebharatamnrityautsav.in and mobile application.
Over 2,400 participants from 200 plus teams have been short-listed for the zonal level competition. Selected teams from this round will progress to the Grand Finale which will be held in New Delhi; top 480 dancers declared as winners will perform on the Republic Day Parade held at Rajpath, New Delhi on 26th January 2022.
Prime Minister's Office
PM visits BHU in Varanasi; inaugurates Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya Cancer Hospital
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, visited BHU in Varanasi today.
He inaugurated Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya Cancer Hospital and Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital, Lahartara. These Hospitals will provide comprehensive treatment to the patients from UP, and nearby states of MP, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar.
Governor of UP Shri Ram Naik, CM of UP Shri Yogi Adityanath, and other dignitaries were present on the occasion.
He unveiled statue of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya along with Murals of Varanasi Ghats. He offered floral tributes at statue of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya.
PM also dedicated first New Bhabhatron with precision technology, to the nation.
He visited Day Care Unit & OPD and interacted with the patients.
PM also interacted with the beneficiaries of PMJAY- Ayushman Bharat.
Prime Minister's Office
31st meeting of Central Hindi Committee concluded under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister
Today, 31st meeting of the Central Hindi Committee was held in New Delhi under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi.
In his address, the Prime Minister congratulated all the members of the committee for creative and practical suggestions.
He stressed that the Hindi language should be spread through day-to-day conversations and complex technical terms should be avoided or used negligibly for official purposes. Emphasising upon the need to reduce the gap between the usage of Hindi in government and the society, the Prime Minister said that educational institutions can help in leading this campaign.
Referring to his experiences around the world, the Prime Minister assured all the members that we can connect with the whole world with the help of all the Indian languages including Hindi.
Similarly, the Prime Minister said that we are proud of the world's oldest Indian languages like Tamil. He also said that all languages of the country can enrich Hindi. In this regard, the Prime Minister also mentioned the government's "Ek Bharat Srestha Bharat" initiative.
After the welcome address of Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh, Secretary  presented an account of the progress made on various subjects as per the agenda. Different members expressed their views on the issues related to the propagation of Hindi language.
On this occasion Prime Minister Narendra Modi also released Gujarati-Hindi dictionary published by Central Hindi Directorate.
The Chief Ministers of Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, and Gujarat, and other members of the committee participated in this meeting that lasted for nearly two hours.
Special Service and Features
Three-day Enrichment Programme for Teachers and Parents of Special Children concludes
The Three-day Enrichment Programme for Teachers and Parents of Special Children jointly organized by Regional Outreach Bureau , Thiruvananthapuram and the Association for the Intellectually Disabled  concluded today. ‘Home bound Vocational Training: Strategies in COVID period’ and ‘Psycho Social Problems of Persons with Disabilities- post COVID-19’ were the issues discussed on the final day of the programme.
Smt Maya S, Principal, Santhi Sadan Special School, Kozhikode and Fr Mathew Kiriyanthan CMI, President, Sports Association for Differently abled- Kerala led the discussions.
Economic Adviser, Ministry I&B, Shri P K Abdul Kareem, Joint Director, Regional Outreach Bureau, Dr. Neetu Sona, Deputy Director, Regional Outreach Bureau, Smt. K A Beena , Noted Motivational-Ability Trainer Mr. Brahma Nayakam Mahadevan also attended the programme.